Is Government Really Necessary? (video) The lively Greater Philadelphia Thinking Society discussion happened on December 9, 2012. ( http://www.meetup.com/thinkingsociety/events/85461612/ ) Below is the description of the event on the Meetup page: Most discussions about government start from the assumption...

A good friend of mine, who is very progressive/liberal, is often willing to have intelligent discussions with me about my anarcho-capitalist views. Recently, she said she was willing to learn more. I told her I have about 25 books, and it would take reading most of them to really get the whole picture...

You can learn all you want about Thomas Jefferson by reading his blog! Several times each week, he posts briefly on a variety of topics. Recent posts were on George Washington, the metric system and the value of paying cash. Tomorrow's will be on economic "bubbles." Read his blog at http...

So I'm reading Ethics of Liberty , and Rothbard makes a distinction between freedom of choice and power or abundance of choice. If man is stranded on a deserted island, he has a completely unrestricted freedom of choice. Unfortunately, he doesn't have much of an abundance of choice: he can either...

Hi Everyone, This is my first post on this site, and also I've yet to explore the resources and threads contained within. I felt compelled to write here for a few reasons not least because I would like to expand my own understanding of certain issues and also I would liked to be challenged and critiqued...

I have a feeling that there may be a societal collapse sometime in the near future. I don't just mean the American dollar being devalued to the point of toilet paper but a full-blown collapse. Knowing how the FED keeps destroying liberty and seeing things like the food crisis and overpopulation I'm...

This guy is a religious nut and a bit of a statist but he makes lots of good points. Why is America Dead? (pt. 1) Why is America Dead? (pt. 2) Why is America dead? (pt. 3) Good explanation of why and how liberty goes down the toilet.

There is a disturbing trend that I’ve come across lately and that is when, people of anarcho-capitalism persuasion drag down their fellow free-market libertarians and minarchists for not going 'all the way'. Now i personally would say that support the rights-based anarcho-capitalist ideal;...

@Anarcho : "Will someone who's productivity is many times greater then someone else's recieve the same salary as the much less productive person(s)?" Of course, why would a gold seeker would be paid more than a forester? Because gold is more expansive than wood you think? And what about...